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What is LIS?
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LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?
2018 Fall data Release
Four new datasets from Australia, Georgia and Serbia have been added to the LIS database as well as two Australian datasets to LWS
Call for papers – “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”
The 2019 edition of the annual Research on Economic Inequality series has special interest in the question “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”
ECSR Thematic Workshop “Wealth Inequality and Mobility”
Two-day workshop organized by the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality (IRSEI) at the University of Luxembourg (in partnership with LIS/LWS)
JID special issue from the 2017 LIS/LWS user conference
Special Issue Comparative wealth and income research edited by Daniele Checchi and Janet Gornick is now available online